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- From: Jarno Kokko <jarnis@mdata.fi>
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Jason L. Tibbitts III
- Subject: REVIEW: Monkey Island II
- Keywords: game, adventure, graphical, commercial
- Path: karazm.math.uh.edu!amiga-reviews
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
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- Reply-To: Jarno Kokko <jarnis@mdata.fi>
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- Monkey Island 2 is a massive icon driven graphical adventure.
-
-
- And again a little review from Jarnis(tm) - This time its
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- M O N K E Y I S L A N D 2 - L E C H U C K ' S R E V E N G E
-
- Publisher: Lucasfilm Games Formats: Amiga (reviewed here)
- PC (Has been out before,
- is better than this)
-
- Price: Not sure, maybe 29.95 UK pounds. Out Now.
-
- Requires: 1 MB ram. More recommended.
- Massive *11* disk game. Naturally fully HD installable.
-
- Monkey Island 2 is a massive icon driven graphical adventure.
-
- Idea goes something like this: After Monkey Island 1, Guybrush
- Threepwood had defeated the evil pirate LeChuck and everything was
- just fine. In the beginning of Monkey Island 2, Guybrush is stuck
- in the Scabb-island, which is just about the worst place in the
- universe. Evil guy named Largo LaGrande (Pal of the LeChuck, by
- the way) is controlling the whole island with a true Mafia-style,
- ripping people off all the time, etc. Also all the pirate friends
- of our hero have totally fed up hearing his stories about how
- he defeated the horrible pirate LeChuck. In other words, life sucks.
- Guybrush Threepwood decides to seek for the legendary treasure called
- 'Big Whoop' - and it's time for another adventure again!
-
- First impressions:
- (note, I first loaded this game from floppies, which is *NOT*
- recommended. Non-HD users should have at least 3 floppy drives
- and LOTS of patience.)
- This game really has loads of disk access, and the animation
- is a bit slow on basic A500. But it's not so important on an
- adventure game anyway. Graphics is damn close to the VGA
- originals, and it's VERY VERY WELL drawn with 32 colours. You
- can tell the difference between PC's 256 colour mode and Amiga
- 32 colours, but the difference doesn't affect the game anyway.
- Graphics are truly lot better than I feared. Music is very well
- done, when it's playing - shame that quite large areas of the game
- has no background tune at all! Scrolling of the screen is done
- better than on PC, but it's still a bit jerky. Overall the game
- looks very good. Maybe bit slow, but still very good.
-
- Good points: The adventure itself is the same as on PC - meaning
- it's MEGA! Not too hard, but not too easy either, and it will keep
- you hooked for days. The adventure system (SCUMM) is also just as
- good as on PC. All the great jokes are there, and you will have lots
- of laughs while playing. Only Space Quest series had better jokes.
- Graphics is VERY well done considering we're talking about 32
- colours. Music - whenever anything is playing - is good. Gameplay
- is bit too slow on an A500, but A500 and a hard disk will make it
- easily playable, and I suspect it's excellent on accelerated Amigas.
-
- Bad points: HORRIBLE amounts of disk access if played from floppies.
- Floppy users - FORGET THIS GAME until you buy a HD. Music stops
- during floppy access. (HD users will have no problems with this.)
- Too few tunes - only few of the tunes that played on the background
- on PC are there. Too large areas of the game are just silent.
-
- Graphics: 9 Sound: 7 Value: 8 Playability: 8 / 4 (HD/Floppy)
-
- Summary: A good graphical adventure, that is much more playable
- than the new sierras. Very well coded. Will keep you hooked
- for many days, maybe even weeks. Cries for HD. Adventurers GO
- OUT AND BUY IT!
-
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